[sage-support] Re: still problems again installing Sage9.2

2021-05-31 Thread slelievre
The Sage shipped by the SageMath macOS app can run Sage and install many extra packages, but does not ship build tools that are necessary for installing certain extra packages. So you might want to install a fuller Sage. Some suggested steps follow. Lines that start with a dollar sign and space a

[sage-support] Conveniently running and building sage on Win10

2021-05-31 Thread Nils Bruin
Asking for a friend ... or rather linux-challenged students: What's the most convenient and workable way of running sage on Win10 if you want to do a moderate amount of sage development as well (so, things like `sage -b` or `make build` should probably work, as should `git track push` etc.) ? I

Re: [sage-support] Conveniently running and building sage on Win10

2021-05-31 Thread William Stein
If I were you the first thing I would try is virtualbox with Ubuntu on the exact same computer, and do the same benchmarks. I also think there are some subtleties with WSL versus WSL2 - which were you actually using? They are dramatically different technologies… On Mon, May 31, 2021 at 5:41 PM N

Re: [sage-support] Conveniently running and building sage on Win10

2021-05-31 Thread Nils Bruin
On Monday, 31 May 2021 at 17:57:34 UTC-7 wst wrote: > I also think there are some subtleties with WSL versus WSL2 - which were > you actually using? They are dramatically different technologies… How do I tell which one I'm running as a user? I wasn't particularly planning on learning how to us

Re: [sage-support] Conveniently running and building sage on Win10

2021-05-31 Thread Nils Bruin
Update: wsl --help isn't particularly eager to divulge version information, but some of it inadvertently has slipped through: in the description of the "--shutdown" option there is a mention of "the WSL 2 lightweight utility virtual machine", so unless wsl has a mysterious option that has a side